Word: moralizes
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...that this is where you can see and hear the workings of Bush's mental circuitry: where he has experience and knowledge and a sense of the players and the pressures they live with, he can accept the grays, forgive the weaknesses and stop short of applying his moral code. But where his background is not as deep, and those skills are in shorter supply, he is quicker to invoke absolute judgments and stick with them come what...
Bush is not a lifelong pol, and like a lot of people who found their calling relatively late, he thinks and acts instinctively. A longtime colleague says Bush's desire to find moral clarity on many issues is a reaction to his father's tendency to see the good in everybody and everything: "The old man thought he could make everybody happy. George doesn't care about making people happy. He likes to have clear choices. He wants to make clean decisions. He is very disciplined about that...
When Newman met her new client for the first time in a sunny, wood-paneled courtroom on the 21st floor of a federal building in downtown Manhattan, she did not agonize over the moral calculus of defending a suspected terrorist. She did what Americans everywhere have done since Sept. 11: her job. She disputed the government's right to hold her client. After the hearing, Padilla was incarcerated in the nearby Metropolitan Correctional Center--less than a mile from ground zero--where he spent 23 hours a day in lockdown. When he did leave his cell, he wore...
America's voice, as expressed by our government, must be outspoken in support of democratization in all of these countries. The global success of liberty is America's greatest strategic interest as well as its most compelling moral argument. All our other interests are served in that cause. The more countries that are governed with the consent of the governed, the fewer there will be where resentment caused by corrupt rulers can be misdirected toward...
...priority for many nations, but it never defined the national interest of any one of them. The occasional use of military power against slavers--usually by Britain's Royal Navy, which held a position like that now enjoyed by U.S. forces--was important to the cause. But so were moral persuasion, multilateral diplomacy, economic development and bribes. All will prove useful in defeating terrorism...